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Title: Federal Bureaucracy


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Federal Bureaucracy
  • Lecture 6

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  • ".....leading to a "polar night of icy
    darkness", in which increasing
  • rationalization of human life traps individuals
    in an "iron cage" of rule-
  • based, rational control
  • Max Weber

3
What is Bureaucracy?
  • Standardized Procedures
  • SOP Quality Control
  • Division of Labor
  • Specialization Productivity Efficiency Checks
    and Balances
  • Hierarchy
  • Authority Control
  • Impersonal Relationships
  • Keep personal and business separate

4
Examples of Bureaucracy
  • School Administration
  • Private Businesses
  • Churches
  • Hospitals
  • Government Agencies
  • Military
  • Labor Unions

5
Federal Bureaucracy
  • Fifteen Cabinet level departments
  • More than 60 agencies with in excess of 2000
    subunits.
  • Close to 3 million civilian employees
  • Department of Defense U.S. Postal Service
    largest employers
  • Government Corporations
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Independent Agencies
  • CIA NASA EPA
  • Independent Commissions
  • National Labor Relations Board Securities and
    Exchange Commission

6
Criticism of Federal Bureaucracy
  • TOO BIG
  • SLOW
  • INEFFICIENT
  • LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY
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